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"Oh, dear me! She says... goodness knows what she says, she

doesn't explain her object! She says that it would be best, at

least, not that it would be best, but that it's absolutely

necessary that Rodya should make a point of being here at eight

o'clock and that they must meet.... I didn't want even to show

him the letter, but to prevent him from coming by some stratagem

with your help... because he is so irritable.... Besides I don't

understand about that drunkard who died and that daughter, and

how he could have given the daughter all the money... which..."

"Which cost you such sacrifice, mother," put in Avdotya

Romanovna.

"He was not himself yesterday," Razumihin said thoughtfully, "if

you only knew what he was up to in a restaurant yesterday, though

there was sense in it too.... Hm! He did say something, as we

were going home yesterday evening, about a dead man and a girl,

but I didn't understand a word.... But last night, I myself..."